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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' and 'Intros to 'Buddhist Scriptures''

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

22002

Wolff's version of Leibniz dominated mid-18th C German thought [Pinkard]

22021

Romantics explored beautiful subjectivity, and the re-enchantment of nature [Pinkard]

22010

The combination of Kant and the French Revolution was an excited focus for German philosophy [Pinkard]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy

22036

In Hegel's time naturalism was called 'Spinozism' [Pinkard]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

22048

Idealism is the link between reason and freedom [Pinkard]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7901	'Buddha' just means a person who is fully enlightened about life [Conze]